According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, there have been a number of serious car accidents in Knoxville on Interstate-75. Officials believe that many of these traffic accidents were caused by the snowy weather conditions, according to NBC10. Snowfall plagued Campbell County and dispatchers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol are reporting that the Interstate was icy…
Continue reading ›Drivers across the country would no longer be legally able to talk, text or surf the web on a cell phone if the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) gets its way, according to KnoxNews. The Board made a recommendation this month to get local, state and federal officials to prohibit the use of portable electronic…
Continue reading ›The number of car and trucking accidents in Maryville and elsewhere throughout the state took more lives in 2010 than in 2009 despite an announcement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that claimed the U.S. saw its lowest number of traffic fatalities since 1949. In 2010, there were roughly 33,000 people who died…
Continue reading ›Drivers in the state of Tennessee have been prohibited from texting behind the wheel for over a year now, but teenage drivers aren’t getting the message. Teenage drivers across the state are still using the cell phones to text message one another, endangering themselves and innocent drivers everywhere. For this reason, the National Highway Traffic…
Continue reading ›A recent chain-reaction car accident in Tennessee, just north of Nashville, involved 176 vehicles, killed one and injured nearly 20 more, according to CNN. Officials say that the accident was caused by the black ice and the heavy fog that plagued State Highway 386. One school bus on its way to drop children off at…
Continue reading ›American Traffic Solutions (ATS) recently filed a lawsuit saying that they’re not able to do the job they were hired for anymore, according to KnoxNews. The company is upset because it’s no longer allowed to issue citations for improper right turns on red. We’ve all heard before that safety benefits that these cameras provide are…
Continue reading ›Although gas prices are higher this year, many Americans will be venturing out for the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, there will be nearly 43 million Americans traveling at least 50 miles from home on Turkey Day weekend. That’s nearly 5 percent more than the 41 million who…
Continue reading ›Car and pedestrian accidents in Knoxville are much more likely now that the sun sets earlier in Daylight Saving Time. With the time change, we get more evening hours, increasing the increased risks of accidents. Unfortunately, drivers’ abilities behind the wheel are hindered when it’s dark out. Even though only about a quarter of travel…
Continue reading ›Nationwide, there are more than 100,000 fatigue-related accidents on our roadways every year, causing injury to more than 70,000 people and killing at least 2,000. Drowsy driving-related car accidents in Knoxville and elsewhere in Tennessee happen as well. These numbers are interesting considering the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety recently released a study that concluded…
Continue reading ›Greg Hardy, the defensive end for the Carolina Panthers, will be sitting out for at least two weeks of the team’s training camp after a motorcycle accident in Tennessee. The football star wrecked his bike on Interstate 40 just outside of Knoxville. The entire left side of his body was badly skinned during the accident.…
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